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SWEDEN: Karl XII, 1697-1718, AE daler, 1718

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - World Start Price:130.00 USD Estimated At:175.00 - 225.00 USD
SWEDEN: Karl XII, 1697-1718, AE daler, 1718
SOLD
150.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2013 Sep 21 @ 11:56UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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SWEDEN: Karl XII, 1697-1718, AE daler, 1718, KM-358, emergency daler with Roman god Saturn, this a superb example! NGC graded MS64 BR.

Georg Heinrich von Görtz issued these emergency copper dalers to finance the Great Northern War with Russia. The emergency money was – with a circulation of some 4 million coins – not welcomed by the population and Sweden's government ultimately failed to buy the old coins from the market and to exchange them for coins of a more appropriate nominal value. In February 1719 Görtz had to pay for the general dissatisfation with his beheading in Stockholm. The government's promise to accept the worthless coins as proper payment as soon as peace arrived was not kept after the peace of Nystad in 1721. Coins were still accepted but only for half their nominal value (16 öre), and the remaining coins began to circulate as 1 öre-pieces, some of which were overstruck with the new value.